scottb Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 We have a winner. Coming in at just over one hour BIG AL!! Thanks for playing and keep your eyes open because I'm sure my baby who is due in January will want to enroll as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 I was looking through the "$1.00 lp Bin" at Amoeba Records this morning and I can across a lp entitled: Plas Johnson with the Grease Patrol: L.A. '55 on the Carell Music label. Well, with a name like that staring me in the face, how could I pass it up? Turns out to be a great session with Plas on Tenor; Art Hillery on B-3, Jimmy Smith, drums; and Billy Rogers on guitar. Really a nice, funky, greazy session, which recaptures the sound of a Los Angeles bar band of the mid fifties. Johnson has a great tenor sound that is smooth, yet soulfull as anything you ever want to hear. Hillery, whom I never heard before, has a style that is light and is able to use the pedal is a creative manner. Rogers and Smith are rock solid. The liner notes even come with a definition of grease! grease (gres). n. that essence which each jazz musician applies to the music, allowing it to slide around and between the notes and rhythms, imparting elements of spontaneity, emotion and personality which defy written notation. So, there ya go! That's what grease is! It's a great lp that I'm sure isn't on cd but look for it if you have a turntable, and groove with it. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undergroundagent Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 I'm just listening to Charles Earland "Living Black!" for the first time in a little while...and this smokes!!! Great playing by Grover Washington on this record...and Earland has never sounded so inspired. Just thought I might mention that seeing as Earland rarely gets mentioned on this board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted December 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 "Blues in Maude's Flat" is what it's all about, baby!!! The greeeeaze has knocked a wall over! Who knew Brother Yusef Lateef could be so greeeazy? Any other examples of Lateef in an organ combo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted December 17, 2003 Report Share Posted December 17, 2003 I got this when it first came out, I think it was the first Hammond date I'd heard. Loved it ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selim Sivad Posted December 18, 2003 Report Share Posted December 18, 2003 I just got into listening music by Barbara Dennerlein. If I understand this right she is German and plays the B3 and synthesizer. Maybe not greasy, but damn she shure is funky! Can do without the cheesy synth at times but she writes very good compositions. All that, plus she's easy on the eyes: She may not be as greasy as Shirley Scott but she can get funky with me anyday B) SS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted December 18, 2003 Report Share Posted December 18, 2003 (edited) the first disc off of the curtis amy select set is extr' greazzzy. THE BLUES MESSAGE & MEETIN’ HERE Curtis Amy, tenor sax; Roy Brewster, valve trombone; Paul Bryant, organ; Clarence Jones, bass; Jimmy Miller, drums. anyone else hear the set? angel eyes is a good jam ss1 Edited December 18, 2003 by Soulstation1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted December 19, 2003 Report Share Posted December 19, 2003 Speaking of Paul Bryant, just this morning I found his lp Something's Happening, his first record on the Fantasy label. Nice stuff but recorded "hot", there's a lot of organ distortion on this lp. Part of the line up includes Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, and he rips off a couple of good solos. Plas Johnson makes an appearance also, so it's a happening lp to look for. Another obscure L.A. organist whose lp I also pick up is Charles Kynard: Reelin' with the Feelin' that very groovy. Interesting part of the album is Joe Pass plays in the session but he solo's only four times, out of six cuts!!?? He's kind of under utilized here, to say the least. However, Kynard is a powerful organist, and Wilton Felder has some very good moments. These two get a from me, if you find them, don't be afraid to buy 'em. I think I'm getting hooked on these obscure L.A. organ sessions, it makes your day when you find one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undergroundagent Posted January 9, 2004 Report Share Posted January 9, 2004 This topic needs to be revived...so am I doing it. I picked an old VICJ of McDuff's "Goodnight, It's Time To Go" today with Grant Green and Harold Vick. It burns!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom in RI Posted January 11, 2004 Report Share Posted January 11, 2004 I just picked up Maceo Parker's Southern Exposure, greazzy enough for ya? Also, have his Roots Revisited, a chance to hear Don Pullen go for the greaze! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted January 11, 2004 Report Share Posted January 11, 2004 I just got the Curtis Amy Mosaic Select. Disc One with Paul Bryant on organ is highly greasy stuff! This is plush, fat-assed organ playing- a world away from ,let's say, Larry Young, and doesn't have the virtuoso quality of Jimmy Smith, but if you like big plush high-calorie organ sounds, check this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 was jimmy smith's "confirmation" ever released on cd? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Tracks from that are on the original re-release of "The Sermon" (released in 1987 I think?) The new RVG of "The Sermon" does not have the extra tracks on it. Are they now available on "House Party"? I can't keep this shit straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted January 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 What timing: this thread gets revived just as I pop Boogaloo Sisters into the system for a much-needed revisit! Y'know, I hadn't really had that much interest in the Amy set...... until ss1 and you guys started singin' its greazy praises. DAMN!!! And I thought I wasn't gonna buy anything for awhile! DAMN!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 I just got my Spanish Blue Notes in yesterday. A pretty greazy package. Ike Quebec BLUE AND SENTIMENTAL Johnny Griffin THE CONGREGATION Reuben Wilson LOVE BUG Freddie Roach DOWN TO EARTH Couldn't tell if my hands were greazy from handling these disc or the fried chicken we had for supper. Either way it was all good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted February 2, 2004 Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 hey greaaazzzzzers turn the page on your bn calendar...... it's freakin' baby face ss1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted February 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2004 Did any of you guys pick up This is Billy Mitchell last year? Sure some GREEEAZE on a few of those tracks! And even the tracks without the organ are fine and dandy as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 (edited) Edited February 7, 2004 by Soulstation1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 Did any of you guys pick up This is Billy Mitchell last year? Sure some GREEEAZE on a few of those tracks! And even the tracks without the organ are fine and dandy as well! Agreed! I'm still hoping for a copy or reissue of the rare self-produced session of the Al Grey-Jimmy Forrest group with Don Patterson on organ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Listening again to the Jimmy Smith Mosaic, and I happen to think it has great music on it. I know a lot of people dump on it, but to my ears, the music is nice and funky. A big difference for me has been getting the set in lp format, the cd set sounded kind of murky to me. Still, this is a great Mosaic set, and well worth the $$$. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Jimmy was doing some things back then that he never really touched again. I think this is the stuff that haunted Coltrane. Before he went to his more blues-based playing, he was experimenting with the organ, seeing what he could do with it. Some of the tracks on that Mosaic are wild, unlike any organ playing since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connoisseur series500 Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Jimmy was doing some things back then that he never really touched again. I think this is the stuff that haunted Coltrane. Before he went to his more blues-based playing, he was experimenting with the organ, seeing what he could do with it. Some of the tracks on that Mosaic are wild, unlike any organ playing since. Can you elaborate on that a little, Jim? Any particular tracks worth hearing for those experiments? I don't have the Mosaic set, but I've got a lot of the old stuff on individual cds. Which cds do you think has a lot of his early experimenting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 man that curtis amy stuff is da shiznett.... i like the way bryant plays the organ with a firm and powerful hand and then has the light touch, 2 seconds later i'm diggin' clarence jones' bass work angel eyes is da song ss1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted February 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 I have GOT to get that set! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 (edited) Me too!! Because of this board I went from not really wanting the Curtis Amy Select to feeling my life is not complete without it! That reminded me of my wife's previous opinion that the BNBB was made up of Blue Note employees who were there to generate interest and get suckers like me to buy their music. Edited February 13, 2004 by scottb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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